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Re: What is an IE language (was: Re: Workshops Review from Yitzik the

From:Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Sunday, December 22, 2002, 4:32
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From: "Mangiat" <mangiat@...>
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Subject: Re: What is an IE language (was: Re: Workshops Review from Yitzik
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> ... but we don't use initial question marks, thou'. In fact, this is quite > often a source of problems, even for native speakers, since we often find > out that a sentence is meant to be pronounced with an interrogative > intonation when it's already too late ;-)
This can happen occasionally in English, as there are ways of making questions in statement form, aren't there?